tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post2327681445232482326..comments2018-02-21T08:32:27.202-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Bruegel's ProverbsZephirinenoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-12915393167753307602012-03-12T14:45:15.932-07:002012-03-12T14:45:15.932-07:00Having spent many a summer day in Bree (the Belgia...Having spent many a summer day in Bree (the Belgian town some think Bruegel was born, I can attest to the accuracy of his vision. Things haven&#39;t changed much. Fortunately, there is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eSM6RfxdjU" rel="nofollow">ice cream</a>.departuredelayedhttp://departuredelayed.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68752142184088762642012-03-12T04:14:42.555-07:002012-03-12T04:14:42.555-07:00One returns to Bruegel&#39;s ingenious study of hu...One returns to Bruegel&#39;s ingenious study of human stupidity armed with centuries of reiterated supporting proof: human folly is inexhaustible.<br /><br />Historical developments merely compound the evidence.<br /><br />We&#39;re reminded of a contemporary proverb: the devil is in the details.<br /><br />Here, indeed, he is situated smack dab in the middle of the wonderfully superabundant detail, comfortably ensconced in his gazebo/confessional.<br /><br />The blank expressions on the faces of the players in this comedy of the absurd help us recall that the relationship of the individual to society in a Flemish village is perhaps not so unlike that which pertains in our own world of alienated monads after all.<br /><br />Duh!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39695458794200533402012-03-12T01:06:17.919-07:002012-03-12T01:06:17.919-07:00Thanks for this fascinating in-depth look at what&...Thanks for this fascinating in-depth look at what&#39;s underneath Brueghel&#39;s painting--I&#39;m going to jettison his &quot;Icarus&quot; and make this my desktop background.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80633651760961044912012-03-11T19:38:04.551-07:002012-03-11T19:38:04.551-07:00fascinating.fascinating.gamefacedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562522181852339258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90246081541676483212012-03-11T12:29:35.716-07:002012-03-11T12:29:35.716-07:00Tom,
Such a compendium of &quot;situations&quot; ...Tom,<br /><br />Such a compendium of &quot;situations&quot; here in Breughel&#39;s painting, these translations of them into &quot;proverbs&quot; -- thanks on a morning in which daylight has been saved . . .<br /><br />3.11<br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible<br />ridge, golden-crowned sparrow on feeder<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> object, recognized in which<br /> visible was not “left”<br /><br /> one that from this which is,<br /> found, had been there<br /><br />silver of low sun reflected in channel,<br />whiteness of gull gliding toward ridgeSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com